- Family: Brassicaceae Burnett
Capsella Medik.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Temp. & Subtropical.
Descriptions
According to Flora Zambesiaca
[FZ]Cruciferae, A. W. Exell. Flora Zambesiaca 1:1. 1960
- Habit
- Annual or biennial herbs with slender tap-root.
- Leaves
- Basal leaves entire or pinnatifid, cauline amplexicaul.
- Flowers
- Flowers usually white.
- Calyx
- Sepals not saccate.
- Corolla
- Petals 4.
- Stamens
- Stamens 6.
- Fruits
- Silicule flattened-obcordate (rarely ovoid) with keeled, net-veined valves.
- Seeds
- Seeds several in each loculus.
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Cruciferae, Bengt Jonsell (University of Stockholm). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1982
- Habit
- Annual to short-lived perennials, small to medium-sized, with a taproot
- Indumentum
- Hairs simple forked or branched
- Inflorescences
- Racemes terminal, ebracteate, corymbose, with small flowers, in fruit lax
- Calyx
- Sepals somewhat spreading, not saccate
- Corolla
- Petals white, sometimes reddish or yellowish, ± clawed (rarely absent)
- Stamens
- Stamens 6; filaments linear; anthers ovoid, obtuse
- Nectaries
- Nectaries as semicircular glands at each side of each lateral stamen
- Ovary
- Ovary dorsiventrally flattened, obovate in outline, with 10–40 ovules in each locule
- Fruits
- Fruit a silicula, dehiscent, flat, with narrow septum, obtriangular to obcordate; valves keeled
- Seeds
- Seeds numerous, not mucilaginous.
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Distribution
Native to:
Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Magadan, Mexico Central, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia
Extinct in:
Tasmania
Introduced into:
Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Azores, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, British Columbia, Burundi, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Crozet Is., Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Easter Is., Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Florida, Free State, Galápagos, Georgia, Greenland, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jamaica, Japan, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Kerguelen, KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Lesotho, Louisiana, Madeira, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Masachusettes, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Namibia, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, Newfoundland, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northwest Territorie, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Peru, Québec, Rhode I., Rwanda, Réunion, Saskatchewan, Socotra, South Carolina, South Dakota, South Georgia, St.Helena, Sudan, Svalbard, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Accepted Species
Synonyms
Other Data
Capsella Medik. appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Pfl.-Gatt.: 85 (1792)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora Zambesiaca
- Pflanz.–Gatt.: 85 (1792) now. conserv.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Pflanzengatt. 1: 85 (1792), nom. conserv.
Sources
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0